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2. Urban Growth and Decline in the United States: A Study of Migration's Effects in Two Cities. Paper Series No. 5234.
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Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA. and Morrison, Peter A.
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The United States is a highly urbanized nation with space in abundance, yet large portions of its national territory are emptying out. The counterpart of this pervasive population decline is a highly selective pattern of growth, conferred by a national system of migration flows that has increasingly favored a certain few metropolitan areas. This duality of growth and decline, and its dependence on an intricate system of migration flows, are central features of U.S. urbanization. Migration is a key observable phenomenon, expressing the urbanization process and hence promising insight into its workings. This paper examines U.S. migration first from a broad analytical viewpoint and then through the experience of two specific cities. Section Two considers the functions and dynamics of the migration process: what causes migration to occur, what its effects are on migrants, and how it affects the places they leave and the places to which they go. Sections Three and Four present two specific metropolitan area case studies within which general urbanization phenomena are examined: San Jose, California, a case study of rapid population growth; and the city of Saint Louis which exemplifies central-city population decline. (Author/JM)
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- 1974
3. Estrangement, Machismo, and Gang Violence. Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 362-76.
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Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Inst. for Research on Poverty., Erlanger, Howard S., and Persily, Fr
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In considering whether subcultural values were associated with violence, it was critical to determine both the precise content of such values and the way in which the subculture interacts with structural forces to affect the level of violence. Based on interview and observational materials, this qualitative study examined the role of "machismo" and the incidence of gang violence in the Chicano "barrios" of East Los Angeles, under two structural circumstances--the more common state of disenfranchisement and the conditions of the late 1960s and early 1970s in which a strong locally based political movement existed. More than 25 open-ended interviews were conducted with Chicano males, aged 15-30, who lived in one of the East Los Angeles barrios and who currently participated or had participated extensively in gang activity. For all the Chicanos interviewed, "machismo" meant "having courage", "not backing down", or "being ready to fight". However, violence in itself was not directly a "macho" trait. Estrangement fostered a strong identity with the peer group in the barrio, because the peer group was the most readily available source of identity. This resulted in a strong sense of turf, which in turn greatly increased the potential for conflict and thus for violence. The change in group identity and in the incidence of violence occurred in the period from late 1967 to early 1972, when a strong locally based political movement succeeded in greatly reducing the level of estrangement. (NQ)
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- 1976
4. Justification Paper for Intensified Pre-school and Primary Grade Program Development.
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Redwood City School District, CA. and Hill, Kenneth G.
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Information presented in this paper was used as a rationale for implementing a developmentally appropriate primary education program in the Redwood City School District, Redwood City, California. The purpose of the paper was to emphasize the need for intensifying the entry level program for students in order to insure a successful school experience for all. Discussion focuses on attitudes in people which engender success in school, societal changes which influence education, and the traditional characteristics of learning in the American classroom. Problematic characteristics of the District which were considered important to take into account in developing a new educational model are specified along with the hypotheses that constituted the foundation for beginning a relevant school readiness program for very young children. The envisioned program was designed to utilize the District's Child Development Center to promote children's readiness for formal learning. The concluding section of the paper provides an outline of the program and a timeline for its implementation. (RH)
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- 1988
5. New Challenges for Rural Economic Development. Working Paper No. 400.
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California Univ., Berkeley. Inst. of Urban and Regional Development., California Univ., Berkeley. Inst. of Governmental Studies., and Blakely, Edward J.
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Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy options. "New Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Development" summarizes and integrates material in the other papers. "The Changing Nature of Rural America" discusses population trends and their impact on rural communities, human resources development, and employment opportunities. The next two papers, on employment trends and the status of women and minorities, review published census and other national data on rural growth and structural change, and indicate that women and minorities have not fully shared in recent rural economic gains. The four state case studies follow. "Western Urban and Regional Development: Emerging Conflicts and Planning Issues" covers the context of change (unequal spatial development, sectoral changes, labor market polarization, technological development, poor aggregate economic performance) and problems, issues, and conflicts. "The Future of Economic Development in Small Cities" discusses strategies and policy considerations. A final paper summarizes the findings of the University of California's Rural Development Policy Project, including the critical role for post-secondary educational institutions in providing relevant training for mid-level technical and managerial personnel. (MH)
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- 1983
6. SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES (47TH, SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 3, 1967).
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American Association of Junior Colleges, Washington, DC.
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IN ADDITION TO THE THREE PRINCIPAL ADDRESSES ("TO TEMPER THE SWORD OF INTELLECT,""SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE JUNIOR COLLEGE," AND "A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE") SELECTED PAPERS FROM NINE OF THE 10 SESSIONS ARE REPRODUCED. EACH SESSION CONCERNED A SPECIFIC TOPIC--(1) EXPERIMENTATION AND INNOVATION, (2) FACULTY VIEWS OF COLLEGE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION, (3) CURRICULUMS FOR THE BIG CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, (4) JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, (5) FACULTY ORIENTATION AND INSERVICE PROGRAMS, (6) ADMINISTRATORS' VIEWS OF THE EFFECTIVE FACULTY MEMBER, (7) DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMS, (8) PLANNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACILITIES, AND (9) WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS. THIS DOCUMENT IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR $2.00 FROM THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES, 1315 SIXTEENTH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036. (WO)
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- 1967
7. Working Papers on Asian American Studies: Annotated Bibliography on Koreans in America.
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California Univ., Los Angeles. Asian American Studies Center. and Kim, Christopher
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This classified annotated bibliography on Koreans in America includes references on the following topics: (1) Korean American directories, (2) immigration history, (3) deportation cases, (4) Korean students in the U.S., (5) Korean Americans in the Asian American Movement, (6) state and federal legislation affecting Koreans in America, (7) Korean appeal for Korea's independence, (8) white American participation in the Korean independence movement in the U.S., (9) political activities of Koreans in the U.S., (10) Koreans in Hawaii, (11) Koreans in Montana, (12) general history of Koreans in America, (13) Koreans in California, (14) the Asiatic Exclusion League, and (15) annotated bibliographies. (Author/AM)
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- 1976
8. Education and New Developments 2017
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Carmo, Mafalda
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This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and others interested in a field that is fertile in new perspectives, ideas and knowledge. We counted on an extensive variety of contributors and presenters, which can supplement our view of the human essence and behavior, showing the impact of their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. This is, certainly, one of the reasons we have many nationalities and cultures represented, inspiring multi-disciplinary collaborative links, fomenting intellectual encounter and development. END 2017 received 581 submissions, from 55 different countries, reviewed by a double-blind process. Submissions were prepared to take form of Oral Presentations, Posters, Virtual Presentations and Workshops. The conference accepted for presentation 176 submissions (30% acceptance rate). The conference also includes a keynote presentation from an internationally distinguished researcher, Professor Lizbeth Goodman, Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and Professor of Inclusive Design for Learning at University College Dublin; Founder/Director of SMARTlab, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland, Founder of The MAGIC Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre, Ireland, to whom we express our most gratitude. This conference addressed different categories inside the Education area and papers are expected to fit broadly into one of the named themes and sub-themes. To develop the conference program we have chosen four main broad-ranging categories, which also covers different interest areas: (1) In TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: Teachers and Staff training and education; Educational quality and standards; Curriculum and Pedagogy; Vocational education and Counseling; Ubiquitous and lifelong learning; Training programs and professional guidance; Teaching and learning relationship; Student affairs (learning, experiences and diversity; Extra-curricular activities; Assessment and measurements in Education. (2) In PROJECTS AND TRENDS: Pedagogic innovations; Challenges and transformations in Education; Technology in teaching and learning; Distance Education and eLearning; Global and sustainable developments for Education; New learning and teaching models; Multicultural and (inter)cultural communications; Inclusive and Special Education; Rural and indigenous Education; Educational projects. (3) In TEACHING AND LEARNING: Educational foundations; Research and development methodologies; Early childhood and Primary Education; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Science and technology Education; Literacy, languages and Linguistics (TESL/TEFL); Health Education; Religious Education; Sports Education. (4) In ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES: Educational policy and leadership; Human Resources development; Educational environment; Business, Administration, and Management in Education; Economics in Education; Institutional accreditations and rankings; International Education and Exchange programs; Equity, social justice and social change; Ethics and values; Organizational learning and change, Corporate Education. This book contains the results of the research and developments conducted by authors who focused on what they are passionate about: to promote growth in research methods intimately related to teaching, learning and applications in Education nowadays. It includes an extensive variety of contributors and presenters, who will extend our view in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues, by sharing with us their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. We would like to express thanks to all the authors and participants, the members of the academic scientific committee, and of course, to our organizing and administration team for making and putting this conference together. [This document contains the proceedings of END 2017: International Conference on Education and New Developments (Lisbon, Portugal, June 24-26, 2017).]
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- 2017
9. Latino/a Youth Activism in Higher Education: A New Materialist Analysis of the Latino Graduation Ceremony
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Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely and Sifuentez, Brenda Jimenez
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In this paper, we entangle Latino/a youth activism with ritual culture in U.S. higher education. Specifically, we analyze ethnographically-generated data from Gildersleeve's (2015; 2016) study of Latino graduation ceremonies, emplacing our analyses within new materialist philosophy. We theorize the Latino graduation ceremony as assemblage (DeLanda, 2006) and produce new sensibilities about the significance of Latino/a youth activism in contemporary U.S. higher education. The purposes of this paper are two-fold. First, we hope to contribute to the knowledge-base around how Latino/a youth use/claim space in their efforts for social change. Second, we hope to contribute to the growing literature in education that draws from new materialist philosophy and develops new methods/analyses to help reveal youth experiences.
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- 2017
10. Realizing Youth Justice: Advancing Education and Employment through Public Policy and Investment
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Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and Bird, Kisha
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Youth of color are full of promise; they are courageous, intelligent, creative, curious, bold, and resilient. An investment strategy placing them at the center and addressing the structural barriers that keep them locked out of social, emotional, and economic prosperity because of their race/ethnicity, gender, and/or zip code is both fiscally responsible and socially responsible. Leaders at all levels and in all sectors--from law enforcement to education and in the public and private sectors--must value the lives of young men and women of color and acknowledge implicit biases that promulgate negative stereotypes. Public policy reforms to expand youth justice and diversion strategies should not be based on a single program model, rather public policy should build the community capacity to create and/or strengthen a comprehensive delivery system for youth, whereby justice, workforce, education, mental health, and community-based partners are indispensable. This paper represents a first step towards a more powerfully linked agenda for justice reform. In particular, the paper proposes policy strategies that envision work and educational opportunities, along with health and mental health supports, as part of the formula needed to dismantle structural barriers that push youth of color out of school and into detention and incarceration; prevent them from obtaining employment and entering careers with family sustaining wages; and lock them perpetually out of opportunity. The goal of this paper is to provide a framework for recommendations to expand youth justice reform and diversion strategies based on these core ideas of education and employment pathways along with health and mental health supports that can prevent youth of color from entering the juvenile or criminal justice system in the first place, and better support them during and after detention, placement, and/or incarceration. The following is appended: National Policy Opportunities in Justice Policy. Contains endnotes. [This paper was authored in partnership with Andrea Amaechi, Nia West Bey, and Wayne Taliaferro.]
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- 2016
11. Teacher and Student Participatory Action Research in a Seventh-Grade Science Classroom
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Adamian, Annie S.
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This qualitative study examined the complexities of mutually engaging across differing positionalities (students and students, students and teacher) while intentionally working in spaces of distress (e.g. push and pull between oppression and liberation). The findings demonstrated the ways in which building a beloved community while situated within an oppressive U.S. schooling system, supported students and teacher toward cultivating pedagogy rooted in love and agency, with a collective commitment toward social justice. As a result, this study contributed toward expanding the possibilities for utilizing the process of teacher and student participatory action research (tsPAR) (Author, 2015) and Critical Race Praxis for Educational Research (CRP-Ed) (Jayakumar & Author, 2015) that honors students and teachers' relationships while working in constricting institutional contexts.
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- 2017
12. Diversity Education Goals: A Policy Discourse Analysis
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Swain, Stuart
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Many U.S. colleges and universities have established student learning outcomes for diversity education in their general education programs. These education goals, frequently developed for assessment or other policy purposes, convey a range of possible purposes for diversity and multicultural learning. The manner in which these purposes are articulated shapes their focus and carries implications for practice. Using a policy discourse analysis methodology, my research explores the articulated goals, and those discourses and subject positions they advance. In particular, I consider the institution-wide diversity education goals from 56 public liberal arts colleges and universities across the United States. I present evidence that dominant discourses of market (including productivity and commodity) and harmony (including community and accumulation) are weakly offset with alternative discourses of social change, conflict, and social construction. These discourses are expressed through policy assumptions and themes at both the individual student and community levels. (Contains 9 policy citations.)
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- 2012
13. Rationale of Early Adopters of Fossil Fuel Divestment
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Beer, Christopher Todd
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Purpose: This research uses the social science perspectives of institutions, ecological modernization and social movements to analyze the rationale used by the early-adopting universities of fossil fuel divestment in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: Through analysis of qualitative data from interviews with key actors at the universities that divested their endowments from fossil fuels, the paper examines how institutions navigate competing logics and frame their rationale. Findings: The results show that while many institutions relied on ecological values embedded in their missions to justify their decision to divest, many also continued to embrace an altered version of market logic. Research limitations/implications: This research is primarily limited by its small population size. If the number of adoptees increases in the future, quantitative analysis should look for statistically robust trends. Practical implications: The implications of this research are that we can expect more universities to commit to divesting from fossil fuels if their mission statements provide them with cultural material to rationalize the decision, but also expect them to couch the decision in continued goals and concerns for fiduciary responsibility and the subsequent growth of their endowment. Social implications: Social actors engaged in the fossil fuel divestment campaign may take this research and conclude that they need to build their arguments around the existing institutional logics and cultural identity. Originality/value: This paper contributes original primary data documenting how institutional actors confront dominant logics using both a mixture of internal cultural identity and the reframing of the legitimated market logics.
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- 2016
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14. The Creation of an Integrated Sustainability Curriculum and Student Praxis Projects
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Bacon, Christopher M., Mulvaney, Dustin, Ball, Tamara B., DuPuis, E. Melanie, Gliessman, Stephen R., Lipschutz, Ronnie D., and Shakouri, Ali
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share the content and early results from an interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum that integrates theory and practice (praxis). The curriculum links new topical courses concerning renewable energy, food, water, engineering and social change with specialized labs that enhance technological and social-institutional sustainability literacy and build team-based project collaboration skills. Design/methodology/approach: In responses to dynamic interest emerging from university students and society, scholars from Environmental Studies, Engineering, Sociology, Education and Politics Departments united to create this curriculum. New courses and labs were designed and pre-existing courses were "radically retrofitted" and more tightly integrated through co-instruction and content. The co-authors discuss the background and collaborative processes that led to the emergence of this curriculum and describe the pedagogy and results associated with the student projects. Findings: Interdisciplinary student teams developed innovative projects with both campus and community-based partners. However, the incentives for an integrated sustainability curriculum faced persistent obstacles including the balkanization of academic knowledge, university organizational structure, and the need for additional human and financial investments. The team is currently designing the second phase of this integration and expanding a social learning network through collaborations with five universities in the Americas and Europe. Originality/value: This paper shows the development process, design and content of an interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum that integrates engineering with the social and ecological sciences while enlivening campus-community relationships through student projects. Several replicable practices include the contents and integration of topical classes, the strategies to overcome the obstacles for developing interdisciplinary student teams engaged in problem-based learning and approaches to negotiate institutional hurdles. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
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- 2011
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15. 'Upset the Set-Up': A Path towards Self-Determination Rooted in Conscious Hip-Hop, Pin@y, and Panethnic Communities
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Chang, Benji
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Beginning in the early 1990s, this article describes the influences of the California Pilipinx American hip-hop scenes on the author's development as a youth and son of immigrants from China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Taiwan, and as a hip-hop artist, organizer, educator, and scholar. This essay highlights a few historical moments and lessons learned for doing youth, cultural, and educational work towards self-determination in communities of color. [This paper was published in: M. R. Villegas, K. Kandi, and R. N. Labrador (Eds.), Empire of funk: Hip-Hop and representation in Filipina/o America (pp. 55-62). San Diego: Cognella.]
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- 2013
16. A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California
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National Association of Scholars (NAS)
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This report concerns the corruption of the University of California by activist politics, a condition which, as it shall show, sharply lowers the quality of academic teaching, analysis, and research, resulting in the troubling deficiencies found in the studies to which the authors have referred. This report shall show that this is an inevitable consequence of any substantial influence of radical politics in academia, because its characteristic interests and modes of thought are the very antithesis of those that should prevail in academic life. This report proceeds as follows: (1) Rationale: It sets out and explains the reasons why the university must never be used for political purposes, or as an instrument of social change or social justice as defined by particular social and political philosophies. These reasons are of two kinds. The first are akin to moral objections, an example being that the very idea of a democracy is injured when public funds are used for partisan political purposes. The second set of considerations concern the quality of teaching and research. Political purposes are so radically different from academic ones that the former will always corrupt the latter; (2) Rules: It reviews and explains the rationale of the many rules, regulations, and policy statements of the University of California and of the State of California which prohibit the use of the University for political purposes; (3) Rebuttal: It sets out and rebuts some common defenses of the current politicized state of the university. In particular, it deals with the mistaken notion that academic freedom is injured if it is objected to politicized education, and the equally mistaken notion (which both contradicts and is contradicted by the first) that if most teachers are not abusing their classroom, the problem cannot be serious; (4) Evidence: It sets out evidence of many different kinds from the campuses which shows both that politicization is a serious problem that now compromises the quality of education and research, and that university regulations which ought to prevent this abuse are no longer being enforced by campus administrations; (5) Consequences: It discusses the many serious consequences of the University's failure to maintain itself free of politicization. These include, for example: a college-educated generation poorly prepared for citizenship with respect to writing and reasoning skills, and to knowledge of the history and institutions of its own society; a sharp decline in the quality of high school teaching; and seriously compromised upward mobility for minorities; and (6) Responsibility: It discusses the origin of the problem, and the responsibility of the Regents to take corrective action. It also makes some practical suggestions for Regental action. (Contains 1 figure and 89 footnotes.) [Funding for this paper was provided by the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation and the Barnes Family Foundation.]
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- 2012
17. Cross-Cultural Context, Content, and Design: Development of Courses in Global Topics Serving International Students
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Van Hook, Steven R.
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This research was conducted in the development of courses for students from multiple nations at two California universities, applying cross-cultural tactics in course content and design. The paper examines the evolution of courses in Global Issues and Global Economics, including the theoretical foundations of socioeconomic development, how those developments evolved from and/or have impacted cultural values, the current-day environment of evolving and revolving economic systems (e.g., the transition from centralized states to more decentralized, free-market systems), the impact of those changes on social interaction, and how these topics may be applied with transcultural resonance to the development of university courses with a particular sensitivity to diverse socioeconomic beliefs and systems worldwide.
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- 2011
18. Building Supportive Networks in a 'Grey Ghetto': The Tenderloin Senior Outreach Project.
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Minkler, Meredith
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The Tenderloin Senior Outreach Project (TSOP) in San Francisco facilitated the development of intentional networks among elderly residents of eight single room occupancy (SRO) hotels in an attempt to improve residents' health and well being, and to focus on social and environmental change. The 45 block Tenderloin area is one of the largest "gray ghettos" in the United States with 8,000 elderly men and women living in the deteriorating hotels. The typical resident is a white, unmarried male with few social contacts and a multiplicity of health problems. Social contact grew systematically from initial blood pressure screenings in the hotel lobbies to weekly support and discussion groups in six of the hotels. The group facilitators used Paulo Freire's problem posing educational method to help residents identify common problems, examine their root causes, and develop action plans. Crime was chosen as the key focus of group organization. Empowerment of the elderly was evidenced by the development of a Safehouse Project. Malnutrition was subsequently tackled by the seniors resulting in the establishment of a minimarket and nutrition project. The TSOP is currently a nonprofit organization with half of its board comprised of elderly Tenderloin residents. The TSOP is credited with improving community safety and individual health, and providing the residents with a sense of community, power, and control. (BL)
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- 1983
19. The School Desegregation Decision: Behavior and Value Change Under Conditions of Uncertainty.
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Mornell, Eugene S.
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The desegregation decision by a local school system sometimes is perceived as the result of pressure, and at other times as unrelated to overt pressure for desegregation. Contrary to both of these views, this exploratory study suggests that a positive desegregation decision may stem from the personal values of school board members. These values may change under the impact of dissent over desegregation. Such change, however, seems to be relatively unaffected by political factors and often appears as the result of an individual identity conflict and a "secular conversion." Models of change as the result of forced compliance, political accommodation, and secular conversion are examined, and several significant elements of secular conversion tentatively are identified. This study focuses on seven board members during desegregation decisions in three California school districts. Six board members, two in each district, were selected for the study; they changed from a public position opposing desegregation to one of support; all voted for the desegregation plan. One eventually proved unavailable for the study, while two other board members from these districts were added, one who never changed in opposition to desegregation and one who never changed in support for desegregation. (Author/JM)
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- 1974
20. Education for California's Changing Economy. Observations and Suggestions from Nineteen Leaders of California Government, Business, and Education. Commission Report 83-35.
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California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento.
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These statements by 19 of California's government, business, and educational leaders address the need to adapt California's schools and colleges to the rapid changes occurring in the State's economy and society. They have a common theme: government, business, and educational initiative and cooperation are needed if California is to retain its economic strength and assure its citizens' economic well-being. Ideas for consideration from these statements include the following: expanding economic and job opportunities depends on continued leadership in high technology markets, industries, and innovations; school reform is needed; a strategic plan for economic and educational policies must be developed; marketing the State requires a partnership of business, government, labor, and education; caution is needed regarding optimistic views of the impact of high technology on the labor force; concentration on high technology is taking away attention and resources from basic industries; California's economy depends on well-educated citizens with particular expertise in high technology; collaboration between universities and corporations in basic research can be to the advantage of each and to the State's and country's economic benefit; and the government should make a strong commitment to public education. Thirty-four strategies for increasing high-technology manpower in the West are appended. (YLB)
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- 1983
21. Public Education and Outreach. Building Community Systems for Young Children.
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California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities., Glik, Deborah, and Halpert-Schilt, Elena
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As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report focuses on the role of public education and outreach and provides background information on the basic development and production steps for a successful health communication campaign. The paper describes the processes and possible outcomes that Proposition 10 commissions can achieve by using techniques of strategic communications. The discussion includes definitions, principles of campaign development and implementation, evaluation practices, recommendations for resource allocations, lessons learned, and sample case studies. Conclusions and recommendations illustrate possible Proposition 10 funding and policy directions. The report's three appendices list maternal and child health organizations, present a bibliography of evaluated maternal and child health campaigns, and describe common theories and models used in communications campaigns. (Contains 28 references.) (KB)
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- 2001
22. Six Parallel Policy Changes in Higher Education in California and the Soviet Union in the 1980's.
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Heckman, Dale M.
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This paper discusses the fact that, in the same decade and despite obvious differences, two separate and distinctive systems of higher education (those of California and the Soviet Union) have been urged by their respective policy making bodies, to make major changes in at least six parallel ways; the paper investigates reasons for this timing and parallelism. After identifying the half dozen issues and the stated reasons for each policy change, the first and longer part of the document discusses these changes in terms of internal factors associated with very recent changes (1960s and 1970s) in American higher education, and the extent to which these factors seem present in the Soviet or California institutions. The six changes that are examined are as follows: (1) increased collaboration among academic, research, and industrial units; (2) improved quality and selected characteristics of students graduating from postsecondary institutions; (3) getting ethnic minorities enrolled in proportion to the population; (4) involvement of volunteers in social improvement; (5) obtaining of government certification of institutional quality; and (6) increased international exchange of students. Also presented are the four societal conditions, and their examples, that are commonly correlated with large-scale policy changes in the history of American higher education. In the paper's second part, correlates of internal change in institutions of higher education are examined for their relevance to the California-Soviet comparison. These changes are: openness to external initiatives; changes in faculty composition; fewer faculty members with tenure; and dispersed power and influence among faculty members. It is concluded that despite sharp ideological differences, important parallels do exist between the two societies, and that their anxieties for the future, as reflected in the educational changes both have instituted, transcend their more explicit differences. Contains 28 footnotes. (GLR)
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- 1991
23. Family Policy on the Community Level.
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Hensel, Nancy
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The tremendous economic, cultural, and social changes that have taken place in the United States in the past 30 years have significantly altered family life. To meet the needs of families, communities and family structures have changed. For the past 10 years, the National Government has been redefining its role in relation to the family. While it is acknowledged that American families are in trouble, there is disagreement over ways to respond. In particular, controversy about a national family policy continues. Although the United States became interested in examining family policy under the Carter administration, the Reagan and Bush administrations have encouraged state and local governments to assume more responsibility for social services. In 1985, the Redlands Area United Way conducted a needs assessment of the community and found that child care was the number one problem of families in the area. The United Way created a task force of citizens and day care providers to examine the problem. Two years later, the city sponsored a long-range planning task force called Redlands 2000. Development of a family policy impact statement, which the task force recommended, has proven difficult. Goals formulated by the task force in the areas of human services, family policy, and community education are appended, as is a sample local child care policy. (RH)
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- 1990
24. Fostering existential well-being: mobility, dwelling, and Undocumented Student Resource Centers in California.
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Ellis, Basia Daria
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WELL-being ,STUDENT well-being ,SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL change ,DWELLINGS - Abstract
In recent years, scholars have taken increased interest in the existential dimensions of human im/mobility largely to trace how growing numbers of persons across the globe are pressed to navigate increasingly restrictive mobility regimes. The focus on restrictive contexts has, however, deterred researchers from considering experiences of well-being in precarious conditions. This paper shows how a place-based approach to the study of im/mobility can address this gap by directing scholarly attention to supportive places that promote the well-being of various groups facing limited social conditions. Drawing upon phenomenological healthcare studies, I theorize existential well-being as a dialectic of dwelling-mobility, and study how an increasingly visible supportive place on college campuses in California—namely, the Undocumented Student Resource Center (USRC)—impacts the existential experiences of undocumented students involved in its operations. I theorize 'place' from a sociocultural psychological perspective, viewing USRCs as dynamic, psycho-social-material realities produced by USRC staff and students involved in distinct meaning-making practices. I then discuss research conducted with an USRC in Northern California to show how its distinct socio-material design and psychosocial practices contributed to the development of existential well-being in undocumented students. I conclude that a place-based approach to the study of existential im/mobility can shed light on well-being experiences that are not dependent on the eradication of restrictive mobility regimes and (as such) can contribute to social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Socially Oriented Student Entrepreneurship: A Study of Student Change Agency in the Academic Capitalism Context
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Mars, Matthew M. and Rhoades, Gary
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This paper presents two clarifying cases of socially oriented student entrepreneurship. The findings illuminate an overlooked organizational space located at the intersection of the public good and academic capitalist knowledge/learning regimes (Slaughter & Rhoades, 2004) that provides students with the entrepreneurial agency to create social change. (Contains 1 figure.)
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- 2012
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26. 'Talking Walls': Presenting a Case for Social Justice Poetry in Literacy Education
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Ciardiello, A. Vincent
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This paper presents a case for reading and writing social justice poetry in the childhood educational curriculum. Social justice poetry uses verse to protest unfair and unjust living conditions in society. An historical case study shows how social justice poetry was used to combat social injustice in the United States. Specifically, it shows how young Chinese immigrants protested their incarceration at the Angel Island detention center in San Francisco Bay during the early decades of the 20th century. This case study is used as a model for implementing social justice poetry in the childhood education curriculum. Guidelines are suggested for the creation of other topics in which social justice poetry can be used for the development of democratic citizenship. (Contains 4 tables.)
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- 2010
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27. Undoing Gender through Legislation and Schooling: The Case of AB 537 and AB 394 in California, USA
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Knotts, Greg
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This article investigates California laws AB 537: The Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000, and the recently enacted AB 394: Safe Place to Learn Act. Both demand that gender identity and sexual orientation be added to the lexicon of anti-harassment protection in public education. However, despite these progressive measures, schools have an unconscious acceptance of heteronormativity and gendered norms, which undermines both the spirit and language of these laws. This paper examines how California schools can both change standard practices and realise the transformative social change that laws like AB 537 and AB 394 can instigate. I assert that the systemic implementation of these laws, through the adoption, enforcement and evaluation of existing AB 537 Task Force Recommendations, is necessary for their success. My second assertion is that AB 537 and AB 394 have the potential to change and reconstitute gender-based and heteronormative standards at school sites.
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- 2009
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28. Defending Left Pedagogy: U.S. Communist Schools Fight Back against the SACB (Subversive Activities Control Board)...and Lose (1953-1957)
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Gettleman, Marvin E.
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During the 1940s and 1950s the U.S. Communist Party upgraded and broadened its adult education schools, abandoning or ideologically modifying the militant pedagogical centres that had sprung up during the 1920s and 1930s in many American cities. In New York the transformation was complicated as two Party schools (the Workers School and the School for Democracy) merged with each other to create in 1943 the Thomas Jefferson School of Social Science. The California Labor School in San Francisco was the West Coast counterpart of the Jefferson School. The extent of this Communist pedagogical empire may be news to people, since no adequate scholarly investigation has been made of what, between 1923 and 1957, was possibly the largest system of adult education in America--until non-Communist colleges discovered the cash cow of continuing education. Having written general descriptions of both the Jefferson and California Labor School elsewhere, the author shall explore in this paper some of the political and pedagogical battles that "ended" the Communist educational system during the period called (using inaccurate but irreplaceable vocabulary) McCarthyism. (Contains 53 notes.)
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- 2008
29. Sex Ed...And the Reds? Reconsidering the Anaheim Battle over Sex Education, 1962-1969
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Mehlman, Natalia
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By December 1968, the Anaheim Family Life and Sex Education (FLSE) program, celebrated since its formal introduction in 1965 as one of the most progressive in the nation, was being smeared as communistic and perverse. Local activists in this Orange County city had been congregating in hotel rooms and homes, screening cautionary films for the public, and barraging the local press and school board with letters establishing a link between FLSE and a communist plot to brainwash Anaheim's schoolchildren. Within a year and a half, this vocal opposition would "water down" FLSE until it was unrecognizable, take over the school board, and force the superintendent to resign. The opposition's success and the vitriol of its attack is particularly surprising because sex education had been taught in Anaheim since the 1940s, when preventing venereal disease was its primary aim. While a smaller controversy flared up in 1963 over a class watching a movie addressing masturbation, none of the opponents in this earlier battle portrayed the threat of sex education as anything more than impropriety; it certainly was not the harbinger of communist revolution that protestors in 1968 saw in FLSE. This essay places the sex education firestorm of 1968-1969 within a decade of social change and a precise local context. Looking both deeper within and more broadly beyond the schoolhouse highlights how local circumstances and national events combined to make the 1962-1963 controversy a heated, but rhetorically controlled, skirmish and the more infamous 1968-1969 battle explosive. The escalation of the Anaheim battle over FLSE offers a revealing local chronicle of this national, polarizing trajectory. It is in the context of the changed world of 1968, when a prosperous sun-drenched city built on family entertainment, staunch anticommunism, and racial homogeneity began to see the effects of a liberalized and sexualized culture on its newsstands, its thoroughfares, and worst of all, in its classrooms, in which one must understand the battle of Anaheim. (Contains 147 footnotes.)
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- 2007
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30. Intimate Geographies: Reclaiming Citizenship and Community in 'The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero' and Bonita Nunez's 'Diaries'
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Fitzgerald, Stephanie
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American Indian women's autobiographies recount a specific type of life experience that has often been overlooked, one that is equally important in understanding the genre and to develop ways of reading these texts that balance the recovery and recognition of the Native voice and agency contained within them with the processes of creation and the contexts of production that shape them. In this essay, the author considers collaborative autobiographies by two American Indian women, those of Delfina Cuero, a Kumeyaay woman born in 1900 in an "Indian house under an old grove of trees" in Jamacha, near San Diego, California, and of Bonita Nunez, a Poyomkowish or Luiseno of the Rincon band, born twelve years earlier and some forty-eight miles to the north. Coming from often overlooked tribal groups, Cuero and Nunez's texts probe the complex relationship of law and American Indian identity in the twentieth century. As a nonreservation Kumeyaay woman displaced from her traditional lands in the San Diego area to Baja California, Mexico, Cuero was unable to prove her US origin to the satisfaction of immigration officials. Nunez was adopted at birth from what was to become the Rincon Reservation by a wealthy white woman, and was forever separated from her birth family and tribal community. Through historical and political circumstances beyond their control, both women become relegated to the margins of not only history, but also Indian community and Indian identity. The author contends that Cuero and Nunez use life-writing as a tool to interrogate and secure their legal and social identity as Indian women during an era of tremendous social change. The personal narratives of Delfina Cuero and Bonita Nunez are but two examples from a genre that is as diverse and as complex as Indian America. At the same time, these narratives disrupt the expectations that readers and critics have come to assume for American Indian autobiography. Their life experiences depart from the "traditional" story line, and the setting is not the Great Plains or Southwest, but southern California and Mexico. Furthermore, their stories are of daily subsistence and survival in the margins of both Indian and US history. At the same time, their life stories force to confront crucial issues of Indian legal and cultural identity, and their effect on individual lives. (Contains 95 notes.)
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- 2006
31. Youth, Evidence, and Agency: Mexican and Mexican American Youth at the Whittier State School, 1890-1920
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Chavez-Garcia, Miroslava
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Using case files of the Whittier State School, California's leading reform school in the early twentieth century, this essay examines the possibilities of gleaning the historical agency of Mexican and Mexican American youth who found themselves confined to an institution that granted them little, if any, decision-making power. As scholars have shown, escapes and attempted escapes from such institutions provide evidence of agency, that is, of real and symbolic moments of resistance to authority. This study demonstrates that, despite the odds against them, youth of Mexican descent had the courage to run away and did so repeatedly, more often than their Euro-American and African American counterparts. Sometimes they formed multiracial and multiethnic groups to plan escapes, and occasionally they used violence. Although Whittier State School staff eventually foiled the plans of most escapees, a significant number of them managed to stay away indefinitely, enabling them to take control of their lives, at least in the short term. (Contains 7 figures and 27 notes.)
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- 2006
32. Family Narratives in Multiple Literacies
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Delgado-Gaitan, Concha
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Community action and social change have roots in personal family narratives that connect members within the same household, between families and schools, and between families across national borders. In two northern California communities, the value of computer literacy lies in the personal narratives that unite these families to each other, mobilizing them to transform their social conditions. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2005
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33. It's Time to Reassess.
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Van Groningen, Tom
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In light of recent changes in social and cultural values and the effects these changes have had on higher education, community college leaders must take the time to reassess the mission and function of the California community colleges. Shifts away from traditional values toward an increased emphasis on personal needs and aspirations may explain in part the public's diminished support for public services, including higher education. This change in attitude requires a reevaluation of the community college mission, which until now has continually expanded, so that now community colleges provide transfer, vocational, and remedial education and community services. Recent studies have attempted to analyze how well the community colleges are fulfilling these missions. These studies provide interesting information, but generalizations derived from them may be invalid or misleading. Related to the question of mission is the question of funding for California's community colleges. Between 1972 and 1982, seven different funding policies were in effect. The frequency of these policy changes has produced several aberrations and led to differential effects on community college districts. It is time to explore alternatives that will provide greater stability in funding and to address the factors that have negatively affected legislative determination of community college funding levels, and also time to demonstrate concern with the continued quality of the community college system. (AYC)
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- 1982
34. 'Third' Institution Needed To Bridge Family-School Gap for Youth.
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Russell, Stephen T.
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Along with dramatic changes in California's racial and ethnic composition, the next 50 years will bring significant changes to family life, with profound implications for public education and civic involvement. A new third social institution is needed to encourage youth development when not at home or school, and to prepare children for life in a multicultural society. (Author/TD)
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- 2000
35. Task Force Report on Student Violence & Vandalism.
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California School Boards Association, Sacramento.
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A task force was appointed by the California School Boards Association to investigate the increase in violence and vandalism and to recommend courses of action. The task force found four changes in society contributing to the increase: (1) the breakdown of the home and family unit, (2) the lack of self-discipline in children and the absence of responsible adult control, (3) the impact of violence on television, and (4) disrespect for the law and lack of effective legal penalties and strict enforcement. This document lists actions that can be taken in each of these areas and identifies successful programs around California sponsored by groups willing to share their ideas with others. The questionnaire sent to school board members and citizens in seven California counties to identify areas of concern and possible remedial action is included as an appendix. (Author/PGD)
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- 1980
36. Why I Fought.
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Nakanishi, Don T.
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An Asian Pacific American professor, D. T. Nakanishi, describes his decision to fight the University of California Los Angeles' initial denial of tenure, including the legal and tactical considerations involved, his sense of generational duty, the case's importance for other Asian Americans, and the personal pain and suffering involved. (JB)
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- 1990
37. What can anarchism do for nursing?
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Martin, Patrick and Laurin, Annie‐Claude
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NONPROFIT organizations ,PRACTICAL politics ,SOCIAL change ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,PHILOSOPHY of nursing ,SUPPORT groups - Abstract
The notion of mutual aid, which Peter Kropotkin introduced in the 19th century, goes against the logic of competition as a natural condition, and instead shows how mutual aid is a more important factor to consider for the survival and flourishing of a group. The best cooperation strategies allow organisms to adapt to different types of changes in their environment—and we have witnessed a lot of these changes since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic. This propensity towards cooperation is not a foreign concept, despite how it seems to be overshadowed by individualism in Western societies. These reflections then lead us to believe it is possible to apply the anarchist philosophical principle of mutual aid to our social organizations, rather than giving priority, again and again, to competition and professional hierarchies, especially in healthcare systems, and particularly in hospitals were the majority of nurses work. For us, anarchist philosophical precepts, including but not limited to mutual aid, can be the key to a more adequate functioning of healthcare institutions. Anarchism can help to imagine the first steps needed to take to gradually move away from ideologies that encourage competition, professional hierarchies, and illegitimate authority. In this paper, we will first explore some anarchist philosophical precepts before turning to mutual aid as it is currently conceptualised, then highlight several concrete ways it is visible in nursing, as well as ways it can be applied in hospitals, and healthcare systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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38. Community Resistance to Injustice and Inequality: Ontario, California, 1937-1947.
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Lopez, Enrique M.
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Assesses Chicano-Anglo relations in Ontario, California, from 1937-1947, a transitional decade for Chicanos in "semi-rural" areas of American Southwest. Focuses on Chicanos' economic plight, their leadership and organization, civil rights and discrimination, legal issues, and political realities. Studies effect of World War II on Chicano community. (TES)
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- 1986
39. The Effect of Jarvis-Gann on Normal Life.
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Blake, Fay M.
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Briefly explores the impact on library services of Proposition 13 and similar measures and suggests that the consequent proposals to charge user fees may threaten the entire concept of the free public library. (Author)
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- 1978
40. Managing Uncertainty or Foreclosing the Options: California University Planning in a Comparative Perspective.
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Wittrock, Bjorn
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Problems and potentials of planning in the University of California system are discussed, focusing on the changing context of planning, basic features of the planning system used, and the role of consultation with relevant interests, which is a key element in bridging gaps of opinion but also causes bottlenecks. (Author/MSE)
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- 1982
41. Why Are There So Few Minority Teachers in History/Social Science Education?
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Washington, Doris
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Discusses issues related to the underrepresentation of minority teachers in social studies education. Suggests that many minority college students choose occupations other than teaching. Recommends that secondary history teachers develop student involvement in history through historical research and controversial issues. (CFR)
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- 1994
42. El destino de las obras de lingüística misionera de Alta California en el siglo XIX.
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Fountain, Catherine
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NINETEENTH century ,MISSIONARIES ,SCHOLARSHIPS ,MANUSCRIPTS ,ARROYOS ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
Copyright of Revista Argentina de Historiografia Linguistica is the property of Revista Argentina de Historiografia Linguistica and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2020
43. Perceptions of Race Relations in Contexts of Ethnic Diversity and Change.
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Marks, Mara Cohen and Faught, Jim
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DEMOGRAPHIC change , *NEIGHBORHOODS , *CITY dwellers , *SOCIAL change - Abstract
In this paper, we examine how diversity and change are experienced by an ethnically diverse urban population scattered across an assortment of neighborhoods in various states of demographic change. We analyze the results of a public opinion survey conducted in Los Angeles to consider perceptions of the city's race relations across a range of neighborhoods using various measures of ethnic diversity. Using a number of strategies to cluster neighborhoods, we consider whether neighborhood composition alters the relationship between respondents' characteristics and their perceptions of race relations. We find no consistent pattern between racial identity, neighborhood diversity, and the potential for destabilizing inter-ethnic exchanges. The results suggest limitations to the assumed significance - either positive or negative - of neighborhood diversity on individuals of various races and ethnicities. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
44. Transgression narratives, dialogic voicing, and cultural change.
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Menard‐Warwick, Julia
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SOCIAL change ,HISPANIC American women ,IMMIGRANTS ,INTERTEXTUALITY ,HISPANIC Americans ,DIALOGISM (Literary analysis) ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,NICARAGUANS - Abstract
The narrative discursively analyzed in this paper is taken from a larger study involving life history interviews with Latina/o immigrants in California. It exemplifies a type of narrative among these interviews in which tellers recount how they or their family members have broken with cultural expectations. In this story, the teller, a Nicaraguan woman, recounts how her uncle violated traditional values in her family by enlisting in the Sandinista army during wartime. Despite discursively distancing herself from this transgression, she ends by evaluating the transgressor and his recent accomplishments positively. Through an analysis of the appraisal strategies and interdiscursivity within this narrative, the paper contends that the narrators of such stories can go beyond managing deviations to dialogically position themselves among competing ‘social and historical voices’( Bakhtin 1981 ). Thus, the paper contends that transgression narratives represent the tellers’ efforts to come to terms with cultural changes in their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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45. The thorny road to technology legitimation — Institutional work for potable water reuse in California.
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Binz, Christian, Harris-Lovett, Sasha, Kiparsky, Michael, Sedlak, David L., and Truffer, Bernhard
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LEGITIMATION (Sociology) ,SKEPTICISM ,DRINKING water ,WATER reuse ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
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- 2016
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46. Creating Identity and Community: Latino Gay and Bisexual Men's Motives for Participation in the AIDS Movement.
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Kuhns, Lisa M. and Ramirez ‐ Valles, Jesus
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HIV prevention ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,BISEXUAL people ,CONTENT analysis ,EMPLOYMENT ,EXPERIENCE ,GAY men ,GROUP identity ,HISPANIC Americans ,INTERVIEWING ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,PROFESSIONAL employee training ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL networks ,SOCIAL values ,SPIRITUALITY ,VOLUNTEERS ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,INDIVIDUAL development ,DATA analysis software ,MEDICAL coding - Abstract
Motives are situated vocabularies providing insight into the social context and identities of activists and volunteers. In this paper, we examine motives for participation in the AIDS movement. We focus on an understudied group of volunteers and activists ( N = 75) in the USA, Latino gay and bisexual men. Participants elaborated on 11 motives: values, helping others, reciprocity, understanding, personal development, career enhancement, community concern, social change, esteem enhancement, personal experience, and social networking. Across almost all categories of motives, activists spoke of working for, and meeting, other Latinos and other Latino gay and bisexual males, and about fighting what they consider oppressing forces. Motives were articulated within the context of a collective identity. Participants' descriptions highlight the process by which they create and reproduce identity and community through their involvement and as they articulate their motives. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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47. Organizing Immigrants in America's Sweatshops: The Los Angeles Garment Worker Center.
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Sullivan, Richard
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EMPLOYEES ,IMMIGRANTS ,LABOR unions ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
As labor scholars search for answers to reverse the long decline in labor movement power, the analytic orthodoxy of labor studies treat union density as the sole measure of movement strength. This assumption leads to treating trade unions as the constitutive movement organization and to the exclusion of alternative forms of movement organizations operating outside of the traditional collective bargaining framework. Through an in-depth examination of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles this paper explores the potential of one alternative organizational form and assesses the role organizations like it might play in revitalizing the US labor movement. Based on preliminary analysis of data gathered from participant observation and interviews with staff and workers I conclude that the Center's effort to build community raise political consciousness and address the immediate material needs of workers, represents a viable movement-building strategy deserving of our attention as labor shifts to a social movement footing. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
48. Generational changes and their impact in the classroom: teaching Generation Me.
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Twenge JM
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- Adult, Age Factors, California, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personality, Young Adult, Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Intergenerational Relations, Social Change, Students, Medical psychology
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Context: Many faculty members believe that students today differ from those in the past. This paper reviews the empirical evidence for generational changes among students and makes recommendations for classroom teaching based on these changes. Generational changes are rooted in shifts in culture and should be viewed as reflections of changes in society., Methods: This paper reviews findings from a number of studies, most of which rely on over-time meta-analyses of students' (primarily undergraduates') responses to psychological questionnaires measuring IQ, personality traits, attitudes, reading preferences and expectations. Others are time-lag studies of nationally representative samples of high school students., Results: Today's students (Generation Me) score higher on assertiveness, self-liking, narcissistic traits, high expectations, and some measures of stress, anxiety and poor mental health, and lower on self-reliance. Most of these changes are linear; thus the year in which someone was born is more relevant than a broad generational label. Moreover, these findings represent average changes and exceptions certainly occur., Discussion: These characteristics suggest that Generation Me would benefit from a more structured but also more interactive learning experience, and that the overconfidence of this group may need to be tempered. Faculty and staff should give very specific instructions and frequent feedback, and should explain the relevance of the material. Rules should be strictly followed to prevent entitled students from unfairly working the system. Generation Me students have high IQs, but little desire to read long texts. Instruction may need to be delivered in shorter segments and perhaps incorporate more material delivered in media such as videos and an interactive format. Given their heightened desire for leisure, today's students may grow into professionals who demand lighter work schedules, thereby creating conflict within the profession.
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- 2009
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49. Actualizing a Provider Alliance to Expand Health Services Access to a Low-Income Urban Community.
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Tataw, David, Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad, and James, FrederickW.
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HEALTH services accessibility ,SOCIAL change ,HEALTH programs - Abstract
Social change to facilitate health care access for vulnerable populations sometimes involves model-driven innovative structures and innovative planning and implementation approaches. This paper described and analyzed the rationale, conceptual framework, program components, and implementation of the South Central Health Care Alliance (SCHCA) implemented in South Los Angeles from January 2002 to December 2004. The program development and implementation was guided by an integrated framework linking the Open Systems Theory, the Social Cognitive Theory, the Health Belief Model, and the Preventive Health Education and Medical Home Project. The performance of the SCHCA as a social system, partnership, and participatory implementation program is also presented. While the SCHCA was found to be a dynamic social system that responded well to contingencies, its performance as a partnership and participatory implementation program was wanting in many respects. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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50. UNDOING GENDER THROUGH LEGISLATION AND SCHOOLING: THE CASE OF AB 537 AND AB 394 IN CALIFORNIA, USA.
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Knotts, Greg
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EDUCATIONAL law & legislation ,SCHOOL discipline ,SCHOOL violence ,EDUCATION policy ,LEGISLATION ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
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- 2009
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